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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kane Tanaka

1903 - 2022

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Kane Tanaka (田中 カ子, Tanaka Kane, née Ōta (太田); 2 January 1903 – 19 April 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years and 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kane Tanaka has received more than 4,656,844 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Kane Tanaka is the 355th most popular religious figure (up from 584th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 77th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Religious Figure.

Kane Tanaka is most famous for being the first Japanese wrestler to hold the prestigious IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

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  • 4.7M

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  • 69.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kane Tanaka ranks 355 out of 2,238Before her are Simeon Stylites, Pope Innocent V, Dionysius the Areopagite, Pope Clement III, Thích Nhất Hạnh, and Pope Nicholas III. After her are Pope Marcellus I, Pope Benedict III, Pope Sergius IV, Pope Marinus II, Pope Celestine IV, and Geli Raubal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Kane Tanaka ranks 12Before her are Olav V of Norway, Georges Simenon, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, John Dillinger, Vladimir Horowitz, and Mark Rothko. After her are Habib Bourguiba, Fernandel, Galeazzo Ciano, Marguerite Yourcenar, Rudolf Abel, and Andrey Kolmogorov. Among people deceased in 2022, Kane Tanaka ranks 14Before her are Vangelis, Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, Leonid Kravchuk, Francisco Gento, and Thích Nhất Hạnh. After her are Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Madeleine Albright, Vivienne Westwood, and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kane Tanaka ranks 32 out of 6,048Before her are Hiroo Onoda (1922), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Lee Myung-bak (1941), and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892). After her are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sadako Sasaki (1943), Himiko (175), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Tadao Ando (1941), and Morihei Ueshiba (1883).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Japan

Among religious figures born in Japan, Kane Tanaka ranks 1After her are Nichiren (1222), Dōgen (1200), Benkei (1155), Abe no Seimei (921), Empress Meishō (1624), Paulo Miki (1564), Mikao Usui (1865), Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659), Sen no Rikyū (1522), Ikkyū (1394), and Dom Justo Takayama (1552).

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